Showing posts with label William Faulkner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Faulkner. Show all posts

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotes

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is
a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at
life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what
I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss

"Earth is a flower and
it's pollinating."
- Neil Young

"People are, if anything, more touchy
about being thought silly than they
are about being thought unjust."
- E. B. White

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen
off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on
every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
- Tom Stoppard

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the
critics. The ones who want to be writers read
the reviews, the ones who want to write don't
have the time to read reviews."
- William Faulkner

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted
adult gets up at seven-thirty in the
morning feeling just plain terrible."
- Jean Kerr

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Quotes

Americans will put up with anything
provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather

"I have as much privacy
as a goldfish in a bowl."
- Princess Margaret

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment
of our intelligence by means of language."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should
be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
- Calvin Trillin

Between two evils, I always pick
the one I never tried before.
- Mae West

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner